TY  - GEN
AU  - Vegesack, Alexander Von Ed.
TI  - Jean Prouve : the poetics of technical objects
SN  - 9783931936549
U1  - 720.92-P 
PY  - 2007///
PB  - Vitra Design Museum
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface       16
Alexander Van Vegesack
Ingeborg Flagge
Foreword        18
Richi Miyake,
Toshio Yamanashi
Introduction    20
Bruno Reichlin
Technical thought 
Stiff Radar Tower, Ouessant Island 
Jean Prouvé 26
Technical thought, techniques of thinking
Bruno Reichlin   28
Hands that see: The CNAM Lectures (1958-71) 
Jean Louis Cohen        48
Alphabet of structures 
Benedikt Huber      56
Jean Prouvé in detail: systems of assembly 
Franz Graf     60
The neoprene joint
Roberto Grignolo        78
Joints and seals     80
Notes on the Aluminium Centenary Pavilion 
Jürg Conzett      84
The asymmetrical 'crutch' of the Evian Pump Room 
Catherine Dumont d'Ayot       92
Serge Kétoff 
Bernard Marrey      98
Prouvé versus Mies: Alpexpo 
Pean-Pierre Cêtre           100
Louis Fruitet
Bernard Marrey      106
Tools and production methods 
From the workshop to the ateliers 
Catherine Coley    106
Ironwork 
Catherine Coley   124
Robert Mallet-Stevens 
Olivier Cinqualbre          126
Tony Garnier 
Dominique Châtelet          128
Sheet metal and welding 
Jean Prouvé        130
Aéro-Club Roland-Garros Buc, 1935-36            132
Maison du peuple, Clichy, 1935-39         140
Marcel Lods 
Cuillemette Morel-Journel       148
Vladimir Bodiansky 
Olivier Cinqualbre        150
Stainless steel 
Jean Prouvé    152
Promoting innovation 
Florence Hachez-Leroy       154
After Maxéville: from Avenue Kléber to Square Louvois (1954-57) 
Michel Bataille  158
CIMT / Catherine Coley   160
Jean Swetchine 
Bernard Marrey  166
Prouvé as an engineering consultant and the Blanc-Manteaux Workshop 
Laurence Allégret  168
'Factoried' houses, metal, wood, concrete : We need factoried houses 
Jean Prouvé  176
Prouvé, reconstruction, and the Saarland 
Rémi Baudoui   186
The use of wood and the BCC House 
Christian Sumi  194
Pierre Jeanneret 
Hélène Bauchet-Cauquil    200
André Sive 
Olivier Cinqualbre   204
Henri Prouvé 
Vincent Bradel   206
Tropical houses 
Christian Enjolras    208
African experimentation 
Joseph Abram 214
Central portal frames   224
Bernard Laffaille and the development of the 'Prouvé-Shreds' 
Nicolas Nogue  226
The Nancy House 
Tatsuo Iwaoka    230
Shells  236
Crutches    238
Prouvé's involvement in the Unité d'habitation 
Ruggero Tropeano  240
Le Corbusier
Guillemette Morel-Journal   244
Between 'bottle rack' and metabolism: Prouvé's concrete structures 
Markus Peter  246
Core constructions  254
For industry
Shuichi Matsumura    256
Demountable and mobile construction 
Adolph Stiller 260
An air of mobility 
Pierre Lebrun  266
Houses like cars? 
François Chéry     272
Musée des beaux-arts du Havre: Jean Prouvé and LWD 
Joseph Abram  278
Experimenting with plastics 
Philippe Bancilhon  280
Jean Prouvé and Berlin's Freie Universität 
Peter Cachola Schmal and Ingeborg Flagge 284
Other construction systems  288
Factoried houses are comfortable houses
Franz Graf    290
Furniture and interiors : Jean Prouvé's 'anti-design' 
Jan van Geest  304
Furniture   310
Furniture, design, manufacture, marketing 
Catherine Coley  314
Charlotte Perriand / Charlotte Benton  330
Jean Prouvé, UAM, and the Salon des arts méagers 
Jacques Rouaud  334
Jean Prouvé: the interiors 
Arthur Rüegg      340
Reception, legacy and biography 
Reception, legacy, biography: the critical reception of Jean Prouvé's work 
Guillemette Morel-Journel   348
Reception in Japan 
Yoshiyuki Yamana  350
Junzo Sakakura: exchanges with Jean Prouvé 
Yasuto Ota     354
A prototypical legacy 
Axel Venacque   356
The Nancy School 
Henri Claude  362
Trajectories 
Catherine Prouvé    366
Appendix
Biography    374
Index of Names     380
Index of Projects     382
Illustration Credits, Bibliography 383
List of Contributors    384

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